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Products of Organic Cocoa Farmer's Association (1)

Cocoa

The cooperatives (Tano, Ntobroso and ABOCFA) are located in the Atwima Mponua and Nsawam districts of Ghana, West Africa. They have been organically certified by Control Union since 2012 topped with Rainforest Alliance, UTZ and/or Fairtrade certifications since 2010. The cooperatives have progressively increased to over 2,000 smallholder farmers producing more than 1,500 MT of organically certified cocoa beans annually (one or two additional labels). Working together with buyer

Cocoa

Cocoa grows on trees. As tropical trees, the natural raw source of our most cherried chocolate is quite small. It grows to a height of five to eight metres in the shade of taller trees and its trunk can reach a diameter of about 25 centimetres. Its dark-green shiny leaves can grow to 30 centimetres long and 10 to 15 centimetres across, and form a dense canopy. The small white or red blossoms do not grow at the tips of the boughs, ants and midges pollinate the blossoms. The cocoa fruit when ripen is yellowish in colour, which can reach 25 centimetres in length and is pointed at the farther end, is attached directly to the trunk of the tree. Embedded in the soft, sweetish pulp of the fruit are numerous almond-shaped seeds, thus the cocoa beans